Akhtar handed 13 match ban

[silentstriker]

Um, attacking another person with a bat is an aggravated assault. Yea, it's a big deal.

 

[Richard]

It should be something we read in someones bio when they are retired, and say wow that is interesting, not now

He hit him on the leg, am I the only one who thinks this is not a big deal?

A bruise, I got one last night when hit at training with a cricket ball

The injury to the victim isn't the important thing, it's the intent of the attacker.

It wouldn't matter terribly had he hit him on the leg or the chest - heck, even the head. Obviously, the more damage the more awful it'd look, but the intent is the same really - and it's deplorable.

I'm astonished, TBH, that it'd be considered not so.

Tell me Sean - what would you think if a team-mate of yours set about you with a bat? Forget the bruise - think about the person inflicting it.

 

[archie mac]

Um, attacking another person with a bat is an aggravated assault. Yea, it's a big deal.

Keith Miller once picked up a patron by the neck, an English player once threw a punch at an Australia captain, they found blood spattered in the Aussies cab in 1912, Hogg asked Yallop to go behind the grandstand, it is a game of passion

It's not a big deal, it happened he did not smash him over the head, he hit him on the leg, not on the field in the change room, an argument between team-mates, I still can't see the big deal

 

[Richard]

Keith Miller once picked up a patron by the neck, an English player once threw a punch at an Australia captain, they found blood spattered in the Aussies cab in 1912, Hogg asked Yallop to go behind the grandstand, it is a game of passion

Because these happened, it means none of them are deplorable?

 

[Pup Clarke]

FFS, What is your obsession with the roll-eyes?

 

[JerseyGuy]

13-match ban and a fine of US$57,000 is just slap on the wrist!!!

 

[archie mac]

The injury to the victim isn't the important thing, it's the intent of the attacker.

It wouldn't matter terribly had he hit him on the leg or the chest - heck, even the head. Obviously, the more damage the more awful it'd look, but the intent is the same really - and it's deplorable.

I'm astonished, TBH, that it'd be considered not so.

Tell me Sean - what would you think if a team-mate of yours set about you with a bat? Forget the bruise - think about the person inflicting it.

The injury makes all the difference, he did not hit him on the head, he must have been 'mad' but still in control, and if someone did that to me, I would wack him back, like a man

 

[Richard]

I'm sure I would, too - and I'd damn well expect the both of us to get in some serious trouble for it afterwards, as well.

 

[archie mac]

Because these happened, it means none of them are deplorable?

No they are part of cricket folklore, and this will be too

 

[Pup Clarke]

?

 

[archie mac]

I'm sure I would, too - and I'd damn well expect the both of us to get in some serious trouble for it afterwards, as well.

Not if it happened in the changerooms, I am sure we would have made up and made sure it did not happen again, after all we are team-mates

 

[Richard]

No they are part of cricket folklore, and this will be too

Bodyline is part of cricket folklore; so is Ovalgate.

Does this change the fact that all of them would have been better not happening? No IMO.

 

[archie mac]

?

 

[Richard]

Not if it happened in the changerooms, I am sure we would have made up and made sure it did not happen again, after all we are team-mates

I hope we'd have made-up too (if the person concerned was worth it), but I'd still expect us to be told we shouldn't have had the thing happen ITFP.

 

[archie mac]

Bodyline is part of cricket folklore; so is Ovalgate.

Does this change the fact that all of them would have been better not happening? No IMO.

I think bodyline was great for cricket

Ovalgate= bruise on the leg

 

[archie mac]

I hope we'd have made-up too (if the person concerned was worth it), but I'd still expect us to be told we shouldn't have had the thing happen ITFP.

Fine, shake hands and forget about it, not 13 match band

Very different thing if it happens on the field

 

[Richard]

If such a thing happened on the field I'd not be sorry to see the players involved banned for life, that'd be shockingly poor behaviour.

Once someone's found-out about it, though, there's not a lot you can do - you have to make an example.

 

[pup11]

His 13 match ban is in effect from the first T20 international Pakistan played in the world T20, i think this ban is a big joke Akthar has once again been let off the hook (TBH it doesn't suprises me anymore now) i think he commited a serious offence this time around by hitting his team-mate with a bat and if he can get physical with his own team-mates than he can do the same thing with an opposition player.
After all the things he has done i don't think there is any reason why such behaviour from him should be tolerated any further.

 

[haroon510]

No player has ever harmed the team like Afridi has done since his debut.Afridi is just a bits & pieces allrounder & personally I neither have any respect for them nor do I want any such player to play for any major Test playing nation of the world.Moreover,he's no less than Akhtar when it comes to disobserving discipline,overates himself & considers himself the most important member of the team whch he has never been & never would be in this life.

Shahid Afridi, with his next-to-nothing ability and his own inflated opinion of that next-to-nothing ability, has done more harm to Pakistan cricket than perhaps any player other than Shoaib Akhtar.
EDIT: BhupinderSingh has probably said that better than me.

how so ? can any of guys present any type evidance for all thes aligations..? i mean i can say whatever i want about any cricketer.. and if i can't present it with prove it is nothing but bs..

 

[anoop4real]

Its really harsh. Aktar is an asset Pak team.....